Scrooge is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, and was produced and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Peter Bull serves as narrator, by reading portions of Dickens’ words at the beginning and end of the film. It is set on Christmas Eve 1843, and is set to be released on Christmas Day, December 25, 1951, in the UK and December 26, 1951 in the U.S.
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Scrooge is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, and was produced and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley. Peter Bull serves as narrator, by reading portions of Dickens’ words at the beginning and end of the film; he also appears on-screen as one of the businessmen discussing Scrooges’ funeral. The film also features Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Dilber, Scrooges’ charwoman, as well as George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Mervyn Johns, Clifford Mollison, Jack Warner, Ernest Thesiger, Patrick Macnee, Michael Hordern and Jack Warner as Jacob Marley’s ghost and Mr. Jorkin. It is set on Christmas Eve 1843, and is set to be released on Christmas Day, December 25, 1951, in the UK and December 26, 1951 in the U.S. and December 27, 1952 in the United States. The movie is based on the novel by Charles Dickens, who wrote the book with the same name, and has been adapted for the big screen by Peter Bull.
The plot follows the life of Ebenezers ScrooGE, who is visited by three spirits on Christmas. The first spirit, the Spirit of Christmas Past, shows him how he is tempted to leave his job and join a business run by Mr. Jorkin, where he meets Marley. The Spirit then shows him poor miners singing Christmas carols and the Cratchits’ warm Christmas celebration. The last spirit shows him that it’s Christmas Day and that he has an opportunity to do good to his charwoman and his nephew, Bob Cratchit, but he refuses to take it. It ends on a cliffhanger, with Scrooger unable to decide whether to take the opportunity to help his nephew or to do what he wants. The final spirit tells Scroogey that he must repent or suffer being forever bound in chains after death. The end. The film was released on December 25th, 1950, in Britain and the United Arab Emirates, and on December 26th, 1951 elsewhere. It was released in the US on December 27th, 1952.
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